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Cougars and Survival in Politics?

An article in The Smithsonian magazine this month is about: Cougars Survived the Pleistocene Extinction Because They’ll Eat Just About Anything Meaty. Eating everything that’s in front of you is key to eking by when times are tough.

It struck me as an apt analogy for the current Republican Party. And perhaps a warning to the compromising, sheepish Democrats?

Or perhaps it’s an analogy for the super-rich. We are a nation of voters with nearly a majority of sheep being herded by the ruthless CEOs who eat anything available.

Simple survival is an evolutionary rule that mucks up achieving a thoughtful civilization.

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